3. Super Luxury - Ian Mackaye Made So Much Money Out of Fugazi that He Lives in a Gold House and Drives a Solid Gold Car, and He Sits on His Drive Way, but He Can't Go Anywhere because the Wheels are Made of Solid Gold (Live at the Shacklewell Arms / Not on Label, 2013)
4. The Birthday Party – She’s Hit (The John Peel Sessions / Strange Fruit, 2001)

Friday, 22 March 2013

Here's the second of the batch of mixes/mixtapes/hackjobs I put together for the seventh British Wildlife Festival. There's nothing particularly fancy about this one, it's a straightforward, end-to-end mix of completely unrelated tracks, some older than others.

Sunday, 17 March 2013

What could have easily been a 120 minute loop of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, thankfully (...or not) isn't, and features a few other records picked up between the recording of this and the previous episode. These include new works from Nails, Broken Shoulder, Old Skin, Aidan Baker with Plurals and Rejections, to name a few, along with older tracks from Dead C, Gétatchèw Mèkurya, Roman Nose, and Half Japanese amongst others.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 17th March 2013 between 6 and 8pm.

Monday, 4 March 2013

I was pleased to have been asked by British Wildlife/Adam Nodwell to play a selection of tracks between bands' sets at the seventh British Wildlife Festival at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on Saturday 2nd March 2013. Rather than play tracks 'live' using decks or CDJs I offered to make a set of mixes in advance, to allow me to experiment with the format and create works that I wouldn't necessarily be able to in a live context.

The mixes were made using an old copy of Cool Edit Pro, without any plug-ins, effects or 'production', but rather as raw, 'cut & paste' collages of tracks layered on top of each other and stitched together. They're sloppy and by no means 'perfect' but exist as a document of the first attempt at what will hopefully be an on-going project.

So, here's the first of six mixes available to stream via Mixcloud, featuring (in some way or other):

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

1994! - Untitled 2

Phil Julian - Hive Work

Ex-Models - Buy American

Tortoise - Salt The Skies

Ashanti and Ewe Tribe of Ghana - Atokwe 1

Kogumaza - Swang

Storm & Stress - Meet Me in the Place they Stare at Leaving their Seat During a Show